Are we all moving over to the parents after treatment forum? I want to make sure we are all on the same one agian.

Angie - I am recovering well but I really wish I would have asked for more help. My mother-in-law wanted to fly down and stay a few weeks but I really wanted that time to get to know my baby but I could have really used her help. She is coming next week. We are so exhausted. We kind of have a routine. I have her all day and then when my husband gets home I sleep from 7-12 and then up with her till 5 and he takes she for an hour while I get ready for the day... and then of course I try to nap when I can. She eats every 3 hours and it takes about an hour to get her burped, changed and ready for sleep again... so it is a full time... 24-hour... around the clock job... it's wonderful but scarry too. When she is upset, I cant help but to worry.

So what is everyone doing about the vaccinations?

Anyone have issues with formula? I am supplementing. I pump about 1 ounce per feeding and supplement the other 1 1/2 with soy formula... doctor put her on that cause she was throwing up in the hospital. I really want to switch the soy... I am going to talk to the pedi about it tomorrow.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Vaccine Schedules, Autism Rates, and Under 5 Mortality Generation Rescue, Inc. 2009All rights reserved1__________________________________________________________________________SPECIAL REPORTAUTISM AND VACCINES AROUND THE WORLD:Vaccine Schedules, Autism Rates, and Under 5 MortalityGeneration Rescue, Inc. April 2009The United States has the highest number of mandated vaccines for children under 5 in the world (36,double the Western world average of 18), the highest autism rate in the world (1 in 150 children, 10 timesor more the rate of some other Western countries), but only places 34th in the world for its children under5 mortality rate. What’s going on?Context: There is an intense debate over the correlationbetween rising autism prevalence and the United Statesvaccine schedule. The vaccine schedule for childrenaged 5 and under has nearly tripled in 25 years. In 1983,the Centers for Disease Control recommended 10vaccines for this age group. Today, therecommendation is 36 vaccines. Calls by advocacyorganizations for a “safer and leaner vaccine schedule”have been dismissed, with health authorities implyingthat mortality rates from childhood diseases wouldmaterially increase.Objective: To compare vaccine schedules, autism rates,and under 5 mortality rates of the United States to othercountries to see if any differences emerge.Design: A full publication and literature review wascompleted to determine vaccine schedules and under 5mortality rates for 30 countries, including the UnitedStates. The 29 other countries all had lower (better)under 5 mortality rates than the U.S. Additionally,autism rates were compared for certain countries withreliable, published autism prevalence data.Results: The United States mandates the most vaccinesin the Western world (36), double the average of the 30countries studied (18). All countries with lower vaccinemandates have better under 5 mortality rates and manyhave materially lower autism rates.Conclusions: The analysis lends credibility to therelationship between vaccines and autism andchallenges the public view of both the Centers forDisease Control and American Academy of Pediatricsthat more vaccines is always positive for public health.THE UNITED STATES has the most aggressive mandated vaccine schedule in the world. The vaccineschedule has grown materially since 1990 (25 additional vaccines). Interestingly, the adoption rate of othercountries are far lower for recent vaccines (Varicella, Rotavirus, Hepatitis A & B, Flu) than they have beenfor the “core” vaccines used to fight deadly disease (DTP, MMR, Polio). Today, there are 11 licensedvaccines on the U.S. Recommended Immunization Schedule published annually by the Centers for DiseaseControl. Many of the vaccines are administered multiple times. Table 1 depicts the evolution of the U.S.vaccine schedule and also highlights the adoption rates of other Western Countries of each vaccine.Generally speaking, the U.S. has been the early adopter of new vaccines.TABLE 1: U.S. MANDATED VACCINES VERSUS OTHER COUNTRIESYear Added USA Mandated Doses How many countriesUSA Schedule Vaccines Given USA (of 30 studied) mandate this vaccine?1940s Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTP) 5 30 of 30 (100%)1955 Inactivated Poliovirus (IPV) 4 30 of 30 (100%)1971 Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) 2 30 of 30 (100%)1990 Haemophilus Influenzae type B (Hib) 4 28 of 30 (93%)1991 Hepatitis B (HepB) 3 18 of 30 (60%)1995 Varicella 2 4 of 30 (13%): USA, Germany, Australia, Canada1998 Rotavirus (RV) 3 3 of 30 (10%): USA, Australia, Austria2000 Pneumococcal (PCV) 4 11 of 30 (37%)2004 Influenza 7 2 of 30 (7%): USA, Canada2004 Hepatitis A (Hep A) 2 1 of 30 (3%): USA2006 Meningococcal (high risk groups only) --Total Vaccines to US Children Under 5 36___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Vaccine Schedules, Autism Rates, and Under 5 Mortality Generation Rescue, Inc. 2009All rights reserved2UNDER 5 MORTALITY is a measure of country-specific child mortality rates before the age of 5. TheUnited Nations tabulates the data for all countries. The rates are expressed per 1,000 children born. TheUnited States is 34th in the world for under 5 mortality, tied with Greece and behind such diverse countriesas France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Cuba, and Slovenia, to name a few. In Table 2, vaccine schedules(where obtainable) and under 5 mortality rates are compared for the 30 countries studied. Note that all 29other countries have lower (better) under 5 mortality rates than the U.S.TABLE 2: NUMBER OF MANDATORY VACCINES ANDUNDER 5 MORTALITY RATES FOR TOP 30 COUNTRIES# of Mandatory Mortality Rates Mortality RateVaccines Per 1,000 children WorldwideCountry (<5 yrs old) Under 5 yrs oldi RankUnited States 36 7.8 34Iceland 11 3.9 1Sweden 11 4.0 2Singapore 13 4.1 3Japan 11 4.2 4Norway 13 4.4 5Finland 12 4.7 6Hong Kong 13 4.7 7Czech Republic 20 4.8 8Korea, South -- 4.8 9Switzerland 16 5.1 10France 17 5.2 11Spain 20 5.3 12Belgium 18 5.3 13Germany 22 5.4 14Austria 19 5.4 15Australia 27 5.6 16Israel 11 5.7 17Denmark 12 5.8 18Netherlands 20 5.9 19Canada 28 5.9 20United Kingdom 20 6.0 21Italy 13 6.1 22Ireland 24 6.2 23Channel Islands -- 6.2 24Slovenia 14 6.4 25New Zealand 21 6.4 26Cuba -- 6.5 27Luxembourg 23 6.6 28Portugal 19 6.6 29Brunei -- 6.7 30Cyprus 23 6.9 31Malta 14 7.6 32Croatia 18 7.7 33Average 18.0Note: Vaccine schedules for certain countries were unobtainable.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Vaccine Schedules, Autism Rates, and Under 5 Mortality Generation Rescue, Inc. 2009All rights reserved3AUTISM PREVALENCE in the United States has soared. In 1970, Treffert et. al. published the first knownautism prevalence study in the United States, Epidemiology of Infantile Autism, with an autism prevalence rateof less than 1 per 10,000. In 1987, Burd et. al. published a study, A prevalence study of pervasive developmentaldisorders in North Dakota, showing an autism rate of 3.3 per 10,000. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control’sAutism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network released data showing that prevalence ofautism had grown to 66 per 10,000 or 1 in 150, an increase of more than 6,000% from the 1970 study.Prevalence data on autism from other countries is limited. For purposes of this report, only journalpublishedprevalence data was used. Below, in Table 3, the United States current autism prevalence iscompared to certain other countries that met the following criteria: materially lower levels of mandatedvaccines and published autism prevalence data. For comparison purposes, the prevalence figures are alsoexpressed as a multiplier of the U.S. autism rate. For example, if a country has an autism rate of 1 in 2,000,than the U.S. rate is 13-times greater, expressed as 13x.TABLE 3: VACCINE SCHEDULES, AUTISM RATES,AND UNDER 5 MORTALITY FOR SELECT COUNTRIES# ofMandatory US Autism Mortality Rates Mortality RateVaccines Autism Rate Per 1,000 children WorldwideCountry (<5 yrs old) Rate Multiplier Under 5 years old RankUnited States 36 1 in 150 7.8 34Iceland 11 1 in 1,100 ii 7.3 x 3.9 1Sweden 11 1 in 862 iii 5.7 x 4.0 2Japan 11 1 in 475 iv 3.2 x 4.2 4Norway 13 1 in 2,000 v 13.3 x 4.4 5Finland 12 1 in 719 vi 4.8 x 4.7 6France 17 1 in 613 vii 4.1 x 5.2 11Israel 11 1 in 1,000 viii 6.7 x 5.7 17Denmark 12 1 in 2,200 ix 14.6 x 5.8 18DISCUSSIONWorldwide vaccine schedules, autism rates, and under 5 mortality rates have not been previouslycompared. The United States has the highest number of mandated vaccines of any country in the world, thehighest prevalence of autism in the world, and places 34th for under 5 mortality.This study appears to lend credibility to the theory that the U.S. vaccine schedule is linked to the U.S.epidemic of autism, particularly when compared to the published autism rates of other countries. Urgentadditional study is required. If it is determined that the U.S. vaccine schedule should be reduced, manyinternational models exist that appear to strike a successful balance between vaccines and mortality levels.- Generation Rescue, Inc. April 2009___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Vaccine Schedules, Autism Rates, and Under 5 Mortality Generation Rescue, Inc. 2009All rights reserved4ReferencesNote: All vaccine schedules are as of 2006. Some countries use combination vaccines. All schedule counts have beennormalized to compare to the US schedule. For example, if a country uses an MMR-Varicella combination vaccine, itcounts as “2” vaccines.All European schedules can be found at: www.euvac.netFor Japan’s schedule: http://idsc.nih.go.jp/yosoku/vacpdf/EN_05-1.pdfFor Singapore’s schedule: http://www.tts.edu.sg/pdf/Medicalmatter ... hedule.pdfFor Hong Kong’s schedule: http://www.fmshk.org/database/articles/005sf1.pdfFor Australia’s schedule: http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/inter ... ntent/nipsFor New Zealand’s schedule: http://www.moh.govt.nz/immunisationi World Population Prospects, The 2006 Revisions. United Nations, 2007.ii P. Magnusson, Prevalence of autism in Iceland, J Autism Dev Disord. 2001.iii C. Gillberg, Is autism more common now than 10 years ago? The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1991.iv H. Honda, Cumulative incidence and prevalence of childhood autism in children in Japan, Br J Psychiatry. 1996.v E. Sponheim, Autism and related disorders: epidemiological findings in a Norwegian study using ICD-10 diagnostic criteria,Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 1998.vi M. Kielinen. Autism in Northern Finland, Eur Child Adolesc Psych. 2000.vii E. Fombonne, Autism and associated medical disorders in a French epidemiological survey, Journal of the American Academyof Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 1997.viii M. Davidovitch. Autism in the Haifa area--an epidemiological perspective, Isr Med Assoc J. 2001.ix K. Madsen, Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data,Pediatrics. 2003.

Congrats to all you mommies! Isn't it the best yet exhausting at the same time?

As far as vaccines I highly recommend "The Vaccine Book" by Robert Sears, as well as "What your doctor won't tell you about vaccines." I'm definitely doing all the research I can before getting ANY! I work with SEVERAL kids with Autism and so many of their parents swear on the immunization correlation with the start of their behavior changes.

I am fromula feeding only. Breastfeeding didn't work for me and he has been on formula since 5 days old. We use SMA gold system.

tia - on the vaccinations. Is there anything else that correlates with the autism? I really don't know but there may be something else fundamentally different between countries. Freddie will be having all vaccinations as many of the diseases are life threatening. Although we obviously have less in the uk.